Upgrade of Solaris 8 10/01 to Solaris 9 8/03
This is a log of a Solaris upgrade using LiveUpdate.The hardware is an Ultra 10 with a single 18GB disk in a Unipack attached to c1.
This system was previously LiveUpdated from Solaris 7 to Solaris 8. Because of this, we already have a PBE (Primary Boot Environment) called "solaris8". We also have an ABE (Alternative Boot Environment) called "solaris7". We will be reusing the Solaris 7 slices for Solaris 9, so deleting the "solaris7" ABE and adding a "solaris9" BE. See the LiveUpgrade index for details of the hardware and filesystem layouts, as well as details of the previous LiveUpgrade.
ultra10 console login: root Password: Last login: Thu Apr 22 22:21:23 on console Apr 23 22:34:20 ultra10 login: ROOT LOGIN /dev/console Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.8 Generic February 2000 # cat /etc/release Solaris 8 10/01 s28s_u6wos_08a SPARC Copyright 2001 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Assembled 12 September 2001 # df -k Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s3 2056211 882564 1111961 45% / /proc 0 0 0 0% /proc fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd mnttab 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttab /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s6 1018191 9638 947462 2% /var swap 590336 8 590328 1% /var/run swap 590392 64 590328 1% /tmp # # pkginfo SUNWadmap system SUNWadmap System administration applications # pkginfo SUNWadmc system SUNWadmc System administration core libraries # pkginfo SUNWlibC system SUNWlibC Sun Workshop Compilers Bundled libC # pkginfo SUNWadmfw system SUNWadmfw System & Network Administration Framework # pkginfo SUNWbzip system SUNWbzip The bzip compression utilityOkay, we have the required packages installed. This is a Solaris 8 10/01 installation with no 8_Recommended patches installed. I really should have installed the 8_Recommended patches.
It was LiveUpdated from Solaris 7, and has existing (Solaris 8) LU packages installed. We need the Solaris 9 8/03 LU packages to upgrade to Solaris 9 8/03:
# pkgrm SUNWluu The following package is currently installed: SUNWluu Live Upgrade 2.0 10/01 (usr) (sparc) 11.8,REV=2001.08.22.12.53 Do you want to remove this package? y ## Removing installed package instance <SUNWluu> ## Verifying package dependencies. ## Processing package information. ## Removing pathnames in class <none> /usr/sbin/luupgrade /usr/sbin/luumount /usr/sbin/lustatus /usr/sbin/lurename /usr/sbin/lumount /usr/sbin/lumake /usr/sbin/lufslist /usr/sbin/ludelete /usr/sbin/lucurr /usr/sbin/lucreate /usr/sbin/lucompare /usr/sbin/lucancel /usr/sbin/luactivate /usr/sbin/lu /usr/sbin <shared pathname not removed> /usr/lib/lu/menu/lu.init /usr/lib/lu/menu/Text.success /usr/lib/lu/menu/Text.status /usr/lib/lu/menu/Text.ok /usr/lib/lu/menu/Text.lockerr /usr/lib/lu/menu/Text.list /usr/lib/lu/menu/Text.flash.nomedia /usr/lib/lu/menu/Text.flash.noarchive /usr/lib/lu/menu/Text.flash.invalid /usr/lib/lu/menu/Text.flash.delete /usr/lib/lu/menu/Text.fail /usr/lib/lu/menu/Text.err /usr/lib/lu/menu/Text.current /usr/lib/lu/menu/Text.cancel /usr/lib/lu/menu/Sub2Help.flash /usr/lib/lu/menu/Sub1Help5.compare /usr/lib/lu/menu/Sub1Help4.copy /usr/lib/lu/menu/Sub1Help4.compare /usr/lib/lu/menu/Sub1Help3.copy /usr/lib/lu/menu/Sub1Help3.compare /usr/lib/lu/menu/Sub1Help2.rename /usr/lib/lu/menu/Sub1Help2.create /usr/lib/lu/menu/Sub1Help2.copy /usr/lib/lu/menu/Sub1Help2.compare2 /usr/lib/lu/menu/Sub1Help2.compare /usr/lib/lu/menu/Sub1Help2.activate /usr/lib/lu/menu/Sub1Help.rename /usr/lib/lu/menu/Sub1Help.nfs /usr/lib/lu/menu/Sub1Help.lt /usr/lib/lu/menu/Sub1Help.list /usr/lib/lu/menu/Sub1Help.lf /usr/lib/lu/menu/Sub1Help.ld /usr/lib/lu/menu/Sub1Help.http /usr/lib/lu/menu/Sub1Help.flash /usr/lib/lu/menu/Sub1Help.delete /usr/lib/lu/menu/Sub1Help.create /usr/lib/lu/menu/Sub1Help.copy /usr/lib/lu/menu/Sub1Help.compare2 /usr/lib/lu/menu/Sub1Help.compare /usr/lib/lu/menu/Sub1Help.activate /usr/lib/lu/menu/Menu.lu /usr/lib/lu/menu/Menu.flash.retr /usr/lib/lu/menu/Menu.flash /usr/lib/lu/menu/Menu.compare /usr/lib/lu/menu/Menu.choices /usr/lib/lu/menu/MainHelp.upgrade /usr/lib/lu/menu/MainHelp.status /usr/lib/lu/menu/MainHelp.rename /usr/lib/lu/menu/MainHelp.list /usr/lib/lu/menu/MainHelp.flash /usr/lib/lu/menu/MainHelp.exit /usr/lib/lu/menu/MainHelp.delete /usr/lib/lu/menu/MainHelp.current /usr/lib/lu/menu/MainHelp.create /usr/lib/lu/menu/MainHelp.copy /usr/lib/lu/menu/MainHelp.compare2 /usr/lib/lu/menu/MainHelp.compare /usr/lib/lu/menu/MainHelp.cancel /usr/lib/lu/menu/MainHelp.activate /usr/lib/lu/menu/Help /usr/lib/lu/menu/Form.upgrade /usr/lib/lu/menu/Form.rename /usr/lib/lu/menu/Form.list /usr/lib/lu/menu/Form.flash.nfs /usr/lib/lu/menu/Form.flash.lt /usr/lib/lu/menu/Form.flash.lf /usr/lib/lu/menu/Form.flash.ld /usr/lib/lu/menu/Form.flash.http /usr/lib/lu/menu/Form.flash /usr/lib/lu/menu/Form.delete /usr/lib/lu/menu/Form.create /usr/lib/lu/menu/Form.copy /usr/lib/lu/menu/Form.compare2 /usr/lib/lu/menu/Form.compare /usr/lib/lu/menu/Form.cancel /usr/lib/lu/menu/Form.activate /usr/lib/lu/menu /usr/lib/lu/luupgrade /usr/lib/lu/luupdall /usr/lib/lu/luupd_boot /usr/lib/lu/luumount /usr/lib/lu/lutime_valid /usr/lib/lu/lutabs_get /usr/lib/lu/lutab_update /usr/lib/lu/lusync /usr/lib/lu/lustatus /usr/lib/lu/lustat_set /usr/lib/lu/lustat_get /usr/lib/lu/lurootdev /usr/lib/lu/lurename /usr/lib/lu/luprintf /usr/lib/lu/lupop /usr/lib/lu/lunewid /usr/lib/lu/lunames_list /usr/lib/lu/lunames_get /usr/lib/lu/luname_valid /usr/lib/lu/luname_to_id /usr/lib/lu/lumount /usr/lib/lu/lumkfs /usr/lib/lu/lumkboot /usr/lib/lu/lumk_iconf /usr/lib/lu/lumedia /usr/lib/lu/lumake /usr/lib/lu/lulib /usr/lib/lu/luids_get /usr/lib/lu/lufslist /usr/lib/lu/lufsck /usr/lib/lu/luedvfstab /usr/lib/lu/luedmnttab /usr/lib/lu/lueddumpadm /usr/lib/lu/ludu /usr/lib/lu/ludo /usr/lib/lu/ludevices /usr/lib/lu/ludelete /usr/lib/lu/ludefine /usr/lib/lu/lucurr /usr/lib/lu/lucreate /usr/lib/lu/lucopy /usr/lib/lu/luconfig /usr/lib/lu/lucompare /usr/lib/lu/lucomp_size /usr/lib/lu/lucomm_del /usr/lib/lu/lucmdk2sd /usr/lib/lu/lucancel /usr/lib/lu/luasyncopt /usr/lib/lu/luactivate /usr/lib/lu/lu_init_d /usr/lib/lu/help/C/split.help /usr/lib/lu/help/C/schedule.help /usr/lib/lu/help/C/print.help /usr/lib/lu/help/C/merge.help /usr/lib/lu/help/C/main.help /usr/lib/lu/help/C/device.help /usr/lib/lu/help/C/choice_fstype.help /usr/lib/lu/help/C /usr/lib/lu/help /usr/lib/lu/fstypes /usr/lib/lu/compare /usr/lib/lu /usr/lib <shared pathname not removed> /usr <shared pathname not removed> ## Updating system information. Removal of <SUNWluu> was successful. # pkgrm SUNWlur The following package is currently installed: SUNWlur Live Upgrade 2.0 10/01 (root) (sparc) 11.8,REV=2001.08.08.14.22 Do you want to remove this package? y ## Removing installed package instance <SUNWlur> ## Verifying package dependencies. ## Processing package information. ## Removing pathnames in class <EtcDefLu> ## Removing pathnames in class <AddNoUpdate> /etc/lu/optfs ## Removing pathnames in class <none> /sbin/lusync /sbin/lurootdev /sbin/luprintf /sbin/ludo /sbin/lucurr /sbin/lubootdev /sbin/luactivate /sbin <shared pathname not removed> /etc/rc2.d/S10lu /etc/rc2.d <shared pathname not removed> /etc/rc1.d/S10lu /etc/rc1.d <shared pathname not removed> /etc/rc0.d/K62lu /etc/rc0.d <shared pathname not removed> /etc/lu/tmp /etc/lu/solaris_profile /etc/lu/rc.d /etc/lu/lu_transfer_list /etc/lu/default.upgrade /etc/lu/compare <non-empty directory not removed> /etc/lu/arc /etc/lu/DelayUpdate /etc/lu <non-empty directory not removed> /etc/init.d/lu /etc/init.d <shared pathname not removed> /etc/default <shared pathname not removed> /etc <shared pathname not removed> ## Updating system information. Removal of <SUNWlur> was successful.Now we install the Solaris 9 8/03 LU packages. I've got a Jumpstart image on a remote server, so we'll mount that via NFS.
# mount 192.168.1.113:/export/install/media/9_803 /mnt # cd /mnt # cd Solaris_9/Product # pkgadd -d . SUNWlur SUNWluu Processing package instance <SUNWlur> from </mnt/Solaris_9/Product> Live Upgrade (root) (sparc) 11.9,REV=2003.04.29.18.46 Copyright 2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Use is subject to license terms. Using </> as the package base directory. ## Processing package information. ## Processing system information. 10 package pathnames are already properly installed. ## Verifying package dependencies. ## Verifying disk space requirements. ## Checking for conflicts with packages already installed. ## Checking for setuid/setgid programs. This package contains scripts which will be executed with super-user permission during the process of installing this package. Do you want to continue with the installation of <SUNWlur> [y,n,?] y Installing Live Upgrade (root) as <SUNWlur> ## Executing preinstall script. ## Installing part 1 of 1. 2161 blocks /etc/lu/synclist [ verifying class <AddNoUpdate> ] Updating /etc/default/lu [ verifying class <EtcDefLu> ] ## Executing postinstall script. ========================================================================= IMPORTANT NOTICE The latest Solaris Recommended Patch Cluster for SunOS 5.8 for the sparc platform must be installed on this system prior to running Live Upgrade. The latest Solaris recommended Patch Cluster brings the system up to the currently-supported release level. Live Upgrade may fail to work properly if the latest Solaris Recommended Patch Cluster is not installed on this system. ========================================================================= Installation of <SUNWlur> was successful. Processing package instance <SUNWluu> from </mnt/Solaris_9/Product> Live Upgrade (usr) (sparc) 11.9,REV=2003.04.29.18.46 Copyright 2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Use is subject to license terms. Using </> as the package base directory. ## Processing package information. ## Processing system information. 5 package pathnames are already properly installed. ## Verifying package dependencies. ## Verifying disk space requirements. ## Checking for conflicts with packages already installed. ## Checking for setuid/setgid programs. This package contains scripts which will be executed with super-user permission during the process of installing this package. Do you want to continue with the installation of <SUNWluu> [y,n,?] y Installing Live Upgrade (usr) as <SUNWluu> ## Installing part 1 of 1. 2002 blocks ## Executing postinstall script. ========================================================================= IMPORTANT NOTICE The latest Solaris Recommended Patch Cluster for SunOS 5.8 for the sparc platform must be installed on this system prior to running Live Upgrade. The latest Solaris recommended Patch Cluster brings the system up to the currently-supported release level. Live Upgrade may fail to work properly if the latest Solaris Recommended Patch Cluster is not installed on this system. ========================================================================= Installation of <SUNWluu> was successful.This system was originally installed with Solaris 7, then LiveUpgraded to Solaris 8. I want to reuse the old Solaris 7 partitions for Solaris 9. To do this, I have to remove the old Solaris 7 information from the system, so the slices are seen as "available" for Solaris 9.
This is done with the
ludelete command. This is necessary
otherwise LiveUpgrade would think that the Solaris 7 slices were still
useful for another BE I want to preserve.I could check the filesystems with
lufslist solaris7.
# lustatus Boot Environment Is Active Active Can Copy Name Complete Now On Reboot Delete Status -------------------------- -------- ------ --------- ------ ---------- solaris7 yes no no yes - solaris8 yes yes yes no - # ludelete solaris7 Determining the devices to be marked free. Updating boot environment configuration database. Updating boot environment description database on all BEs. Updating all boot environment configuration databases. Boot environment <solaris7> deleted. # lucreate -m /:/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0:ufs \ -m -:/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s1:swap -m / var:/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s5:ufs -n solaris9 Discovering physical storage devices Discovering logical storage devices Cross referencing storage devices with boot environment configurations Determining types of file systems supported Validating file system requests Preparing logical storage devices Preparing physical storage devices Configuring physical storage devices Configuring logical storage devices Analyzing system configuration. Comparing source boot environment <solaris8> file systems with the file system(s) you specified for the new boot environment. Determining which file systems should be in the new boot environment. Updating boot environment description database on all BEs. Searching /dev for possible boot environment filesystem devices Updating system configuration files. Creating configuration for boot environment <solaris9>. Creating boot environment <solaris9>. Creating file systems on boot environment <solaris9>. Creating <ufs> file system for </> on </dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0>. Creating <ufs> file system for </var> on </dev/dsk/c1t0d0s5>. Mounting file systems for boot environment <solaris9>. Calculating required sizes of file systems for boot environment <solaris9>. Populating file systems on boot environment <solaris9>. Checking selection integrity. Integrity check OK. Populating contents of mount point </>. Populating contents of mount point </var>. Copying. Creating shared file system mount points. Creating compare databases for boot environment <solaris9>. Creating compare database for file system </var>. Creating compare database for file system </>. Updating compare databases on boot environment <solaris9>. Making boot environment <solaris9> bootable. Population of boot environment <solaris9> successful. Creation of boot environment <solaris9> successful.Okay, that's done the copy. Let's check it. We've still got the Solaris 9 Jumpstart image mounted on /mnt, so I'll create /mnt2 to check the new environment. Note that we must then
umount
that filesystem before we can continue.
# mkdir /mnt2 # mount /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 /mnt2 # cat /mnt2/etc/release Solaris 8 10/01 s28s_u6wos_08a SPARC Copyright 2001 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Assembled 12 September 2001 # umount /mnt2 # df -k Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s3 2056211 886720 1107805 45% / /proc 0 0 0 0% /proc fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd mnttab 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttab /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s6 1018191 9638 947462 2% /var swap 582688 8 582680 1% /var/run swap 582744 64 582680 1% /tmp 192.168.1.113:/export/install/media/9_803 17413250 5613479 11625639 33% /mntWe are now ready to upgrade to Solaris 9.
# luupgrade -u -n solaris9 -s /mnt Validating the contents of the media </mnt>. The media is a standard Solaris media. The media contains an operating system upgrade image. The media contains <Solaris> version <9>. Constructing upgrade profile to use. Locating the operating system upgrade program. Checking for existence of previously scheduled Live Upgrade requests. Creating upgrade profile for BE <solaris9>. Determining packages to install or upgrade for BE <solaris9>. Performing the operating system upgrade of the BE <solaris9>. CAUTION: Interrupting this process may leave the boot environment unstable or unbootable. Upgrading Solaris: 100% completed Installation of the packages from this the media is complete. Adding operating system patches to the BE <solaris9>. The operating system patch installation is complete. INFORMATION: </var/sadm/system/logs/upgrade_log> contains a log of the upgrade operation. INFORMATION: </var/sadm/system/data/upgrade_cleanup> contains a log of cleanup operations required. WARNING: <2> packages failed to install properly on boot environment <solaris9>. INFORMATION: </var/sadm/system/data/upgrade_failed_pkgadds> on boot environment <solaris9> contains a list of packages that failed to upgrade or install properly. INFORMATION: Review the files listed above on boot environment <solaris9>. Before you activate the boot environment, determine if any additional system maintenance is required or if additional media of the software distribution must be installed. The Solaris upgrade of the boot environment <solaris9> is partially complete. # mount /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 /mnt2 # mount /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s5 /mnt2/var # more /mnt2/var/sadm/system/data/upgrade_failed_pkgadds SUNWsndmr SUNWsndmu # pkginfo SUNWsndmr system SUNWsndmr Sendmail rootNote the WARNING message here - 2 packages weren't upgraded properly.
I mount the
/var filesystem (for completeness, I mount the root filesystem
too) and look at the logs. The packages are for Sendmail.I can't explain this problem. Sendmail was not configured at all in either Solaris 7 or 8; just a default install. Maybe if the 8_Recommended patches had been applied this problem with upgrading Sendmail would not have occured.
On rebooting into Solaris 9, it listed the Sendmail packages as "partially installed" - see below.
Moving on, let's check that the Solaris 9 BE is ready for us (apart from these Sendmail problems).
# lustatus
Boot Environment Is Active Active Can Copy
Name Complete Now On Reboot Delete Status
-------------------------- -------- ------ --------- ------ ----------
solaris8 yes yes yes no -
solaris9 yes no no yes -
I'd mounted the Solaris 9 images to have a look at the logs; these
must be unmounted before I can activate the Solaris 9 image.Might as well unmount the install image, too.
LiveUpgrade reminds me that there were problems with the upgrade.
# umount /mnt # umount /mnt2/var # umount /mnt2 # luactivate solaris9 WARNING: <2> packages failed to install properly on boot environment <solaris9>. INFORMATION: </var/sadm/system/data/upgrade_failed_pkgadds> on boot environment <solaris9> contains a list of packages that failed to upgrade or install properly. Review the file before you reboot the system to determine if any additional system maintenance is required. ********************************************************************** The target boot environment has been activated. It will be used when you reboot. NOTE: You MUST NOT USE the reboot, halt, or uadmin commands. You MUST USE either the init or the shutdown command when you reboot. If you do not use either init or shutdown, the system will not boot using the target BE. ********************************************************************** In case of a failure while booting to the target BE, the following process needs to be followed to fallback to the currently working boot environment: 1. Enter the PROM monitor (ok prompt). 2. Boot the machine to Single User mode using a different boot device (like the Solaris Install CD or Network). Examples: At the PROM monitor (ok prompt): For boot to Solaris CD: boot cdrom -s For boot to network: boot net -s 3. Mount the Current boot environment root slice to some directory (like /mnt). You can use the following command to mount: mount -Fufs /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s3 /mnt 4. Run <luactivate> utility with out any arguments from the current boot environment root slice, as shown below: /mnt/sbin/luactivate 5. luactivate, activates the previous working boot environment and indicates the result. 6. Exit Single User mode and reboot the machine. ********************************************************************** Activation of boot environment <solaris9> successful. # lustatus Boot Environment Is Active Active Can Copy Name Complete Now On Reboot Delete Status -------------------------- -------- ------ --------- ------ ---------- solaris8 yes yes no no - solaris9 yes no yes no - # cd / # shutdown -i6 -g0 -y Shutdown started. Saturday April 24 00:49:49 BST 2004 Changing to init state 6 - please wait Broadcast Message from root (console) on ultra10 Sat Apr 24 00:49:50... THE SYSTEM ultra10 IS BEING SHUT DOWN NOW ! ! ! Log off now or risk your files being damaged # INIT: New run level: 6 The system is coming down. Please wait. System services are now being stopped. Print services stopped. Apr 24 00:49:09 ultra10 last message repeated 1 time Apr 24 00:50:01 ultra10 syslogd: going down on signal 15 Live Upgrade: Deactivating current boot environment <solaris8>. Live Upgrade: Executing Stop procedures for boot environment <solaris8>. Live Upgrade: Current boot environment is <solaris8>. Live Upgrade: New boot environment will be <solaris9>. Live Upgrade: Activating boot environment <solaris9>. Live Upgrade: The boot device for boot environment <solaris9> is </dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0>. Live Upgrade: Activation of boot environment <solaris9> completed. The system is down. syncing file systems... done rebooting... Resetting ... Sun Ultra 5/10 UPA/PCI (UltraSPARC-IIi 440MHz), No Keyboard OpenBoot 3.25, 128 MB (60 ns) memory installed, Serial #13630801. Ethernet address 8:0:20:cf:fd:51, Host ID: 80cffd51. Initializing Memory Rebooting with command: boot Boot device: /pci@1f,0/pci@1/pci@1/SUNW,isptwo@4/sd@0,0:a File and args: SunOS Release 5.9 Version Generic_112233-07 64-bit Copyright 1983-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Use is subject to license terms. configuring IPv4 interfaces: hme0. Hostname: ultra10 Configuring /dev and /devices Configuring the /dev directory (compatibility devices) The system is coming up. Please wait. Live Upgrade: Synchronizing new boot environment. Live Upgrade: Previous boot environment was <solaris8>. Live Upgrade: Current boot environment is now <solaris9>. Configuring network interface addresses: hme0 hme1 starting rpc services: rpcbind keyserv done. Setting netmask of hme0 to 255.255.255.0 Setting default IPv4 interface for multicast: add net 224.0/4: gateway ultra10 syslog service starting. Apr 24 00:54:04 ultra10 sendmail[1077]: My unqualified host name (ultra10) unknown; sleeping for retry Apr 24 00:55:04 ultra10 sendmail[1077]: unable to qualify my own domain name (ultra10) -- using short name WARNING: local host name (ultra10) is not qualified; fix $j in config file /etc/mail/aliases: 3 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 52 bytes total Apr 24 00:55:04 ultra10 sendmail[1078]: My unqualified host name (ultra10) unknown; sleeping for retry Apr 24 00:55:04 ultra10 sendmail[1079]: My unqualified host name (ultra10) unknown; sleeping for retry volume management starting. Creating new RSA public/private host key pair Creating new DSA public/private host key pair The system is ready. ultra10 console login: root Password: Apr 24 00:55:44 ultra10 login: ROOT LOGIN /dev/console Last login: Fri Apr 23 22:34:20 on console Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.9 Generic May 2002 # df -k Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 12500068 1611984 10763084 14% / /proc 0 0 0 0% /proc mnttab 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttab fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s5 1018191 29947 927153 4% /var swap 326256 24 326232 1% /var/run swap 326280 48 326232 1% /tmp # lustatus Boot Environment Is Active Active Can Copy Name Complete Now On Reboot Delete Status -------------------------- -------- ------ --------- ------ ---------- solaris8 yes no no yes - solaris9 yes yes yes no - #There were problems reported with Sendmail; on the boot into Solaris 9, you may have noticed (apart from the "normal"
My unqualified host name (ultra10) unknown; sleeping for retry messages, the additional message: WARNING: local host name (ultra10) is not qualified; fix $j in config file.This is not such a typical message, and may indicate the cause of the Sendmail problem.
$j is the canonical domain name definition
in sendmail.cf - as the machine had no domain configured,
this is probably the cause of this problem.
I suspect that if I'd upgraded Solaris 8 with the 8_Recommended
patch cluster that this message may not have appeared.
# pkginfo -l SUNWsndmr PKGINST: SUNWsndmr NAME: Sendmail root CATEGORY: system ARCH: sparc VERSION: 11.9.0,REV=2002.04.06.15.27 BASEDIR: / VENDOR: Sun Microsystems, Inc. DESC: sendmail root PSTAMP: leo20030404085832 INSTDATE: Apr 24 2004 00:19 HOTLINE: Please contact your local service provider STATUS: partially installed FILES: 27 installed pathnames 1 partially installed pathnames 10 shared pathnames 4 linked files 13 directories 1 executables 327 blocks used (approx) # pkginfo -l SUNWsndmu PKGINST: SUNWsndmu NAME: Sendmail user CATEGORY: system ARCH: sparc VERSION: 11.9.0,REV=2002.04.06.15.27 BASEDIR: / VENDOR: Sun Microsystems, Inc. DESC: sendmail user PSTAMP: leo20030404085837 INSTDATE: Apr 24 2004 00:19 HOTLINE: Please contact your local service provider STATUS: partially installed FILES: 105 installed pathnames 1 partially installed pathnames 8 shared pathnames 16 directories 14 executables 2 setuid/setgid executables 5572 blocks used (approx)These packages are shown as partially installed, but otherwise, a succesful upgrade from Solaris 8 to Solaris 9.
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